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 ## Overview
 
 The CanDIG v2 project is a collection of heterogeneous services designed to work together to facilitate end to end
-dataflow for genomic data.
+dataflow for genomic data. 
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+## Branches
+
+The default `develop` branch is for developers. It undergoes nightly builds and integration testing, so should generally be deployable. 
+
+The `stable` branch is the latest stable release and is the one that you should use for production deployments. 
 
 ## Installation